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Rain G. 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
@gestaltgreen.bsky.social
This is a business/education page for Gestalt Green, an (extremely) small LGBTQ+ owned business focusing on native plants, mainly of local ecotypes.

All opinions are my own.

Located in Central Wisconsin.
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"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Rep. Randy Fine: "If you impede the actions of our law enforcement as they seek to repel foreign invaders from our country, you get what's coming to you. I do not feel bad for the woman that was involved."
January 8, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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I think this is an incredibly important point

this doesn't mean that you have to keep doing the exact kind of work you did as a student/postdoc for the rest of your career

but it does mean you have to keep learning, pushing through the discomfort of not being good at something right away
Last spring, I was asked to give carreer advice to grad students. And the one thing I told them was: our best skill is our ability to learn difficult things -- it's also the first skill you will lose unless you intentionally don't let yourselves go.
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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An off-duty ICE agent was just confronted in Minneapolis after people noticed a Nazi SS lightning bolt tattoo on his neck.

If you’re proud enough to ink it on your neck, why are you running when people notice?
January 6, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Also how to speak to nazi's:
January 7, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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Our reporters are on site at the vigil - network congestion preventing uploads currently. We would estimate up to 10,000 people are attending the vigil near 34th and Portland Avenue in Minneapolis at this time.
January 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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This is Renee Good.

She was a mother of a six-year-old child.

She was an American citizen.

She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”

And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.
January 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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BREAKING: The Wyoming Supreme Court permanently blocked abortion bans in the state.

Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming.
January 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Perhaps I should do more plant trades this next year.
January 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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BREAKING: Gunmen raid a village in northern Nigeria, killing over 30 people and abducting several others, police say.
Gunmen raid village in northern Nigeria, killing over 30 people and abducting others
Gunmen have killed at least 30 villagers and abducted several others in northern Nigeria’s Niger state.
bit.ly
January 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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One of my favourite #FeederWatch visitors, the Northern Flicker. Dig those polkadots #birds 🌿
January 4, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Photographing our endemic Penstemon degeneri at Shelf Road. #nativeplants

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to July 1 🌿
January 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Happy New Years, folks. Here’s to another year of lovely gardens for ourselves & our wildlife.
January 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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A male Green Honeycreeper, San Vito #CostaRica

#birds #nature
December 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
December 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Orange-chinned Parakeet, Bijagua #CostaRica

#birds #nature #parrots
December 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Good news in 2025 you may have missed. Have some optimism & brightness amongst the doom & gloom.

youtu.be/g240fpuG8qY?...
Good News in 2025 (you might have missed)
YouTube video by Sam Bentley
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Metallic tinsel, glittery ornaments, plastic holly that really stays green forever – they look good on your Christmas tree, holiday table, mantel or front door. They’re not such a good look for the planet when we’re done with them, though. (from 2024)
https://to.pbs.org/4iOjrZg
How to make your home merry and bright in an environmentally friendly way
Metallic tinsel, glittery ornaments, plastic holly that really stays green forever – they look good on your Christmas tree, holiday table, mantel or front door. They’re not such a good look for the pl...
www.pbs.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Find joy in moss in the cracks in the concrete.

Find beauty in the lichens growing on those stone steps.

Cherish the little bit of clean air & water that weed in the alley is providing for you.
December 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Find joy in moss in the cracks in the concrete.

Find beauty in the lichens growing on those stone steps.

Cherish the little bit of clean air & water that weed in the alley is providing for you.
December 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#Lichen #fungi #fungifriends
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A very Happy Christmas to all my followers, from an Irish Atlantic rainforest!
December 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Families in north-central Nigeria have joyfully reunited with schoolchildren held for a month after a mass abduction.
Tears of joy as Nigerian families reunite with kidnapped schoolchildren
Families in north-central Nigeria have joyfully reunited with schoolchildren held for a month after a mass abduction.
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.

we forget these things at our peril
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025. (From @19thnews.org) https://to.pbs.org/3Ng2Ems
Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year
As the year ends, The 19th takes a look at how the conservative policy wishlist for President Donald Trump’s second term affected women and LGBTQ+ Americans.
www.pbs.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM